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No-one has a political solution for sustaining high decentralisation combined with high redistribution between regions of vastly different levels of wealth. If the Center redistributes, it also asks for oversight over its largesse (If you do have any ideas, please fix Europe)
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Plank Sanction posted:I've heard similar before but I can't get my head around the idea that it's a cynical dig at Star Trek, which is incredibly goofy but is something I've always loved. YMMV on an episode by episode basis but Trek's heart is in the right place. Its more of a well executed and very fond tribute than a cynical dig. The entire discovery tardigrade story arc plus all the season one main character ideas were straight up pinched wholesale from an early access video game and paramount got sued. No idea what happened about that, but the tardigrade isn't really in it anymore. Edit : CBS not paramount, and the little guy got hosed over in court apparently Morningwoodpecker fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Oct 22, 2019 |
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Lisa Nandy  Caroline Flint on behalf of Propserity UK
Pesmerga fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Oct 22, 2019 |
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Oct 22, 2019 14:32
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Pesmerga posted:I think at this point Labour's best hope is to vote down the programme motion, and go for an election. Johnson has announced that if he doesn't get exactly what he wants, he's pulling the Bill. Yeah there's really no reason not to vote it down if you're a lab MP. Vote it down and we get an election, done.
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Oct 22, 2019 14:38
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Morningwoodpecker posted:Its more of a well executed and very fond tribute than a cynical dig. This was actually dismissed in court last month but the tardigrade thing was only in at most a couple of early episodes. No-one was sued (and CBS were taken to court, not Paramount).
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Oct 22, 2019 14:40
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Aphex- posted:Yeah there's really no reason not to vote it down if you're a lab MP. Vote it down and we get an election, done. Unless you're an idiot centrist or that ghoul Hoey. More accurate to say there's no reason to not vote it down and remain a Labour MP.
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Oct 22, 2019 14:42
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Jedit posted:Unless you're an idiot centrist or that ghoul Hoey. More accurate to say there's no reason to not vote it down and remain a Labour MP. Pity Corbyn won't consider that as an option.
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Oct 22, 2019 14:45
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gh0stpinballa posted:why are so many mushrooms so poisonous, thats hosed up man Half a billion people rely on Cassava root for their staple diet which is full of bloody cyanide and fucks you up right proper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava Plants are dicks. Saros fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Oct 22, 2019 |
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Oct 22, 2019 14:45
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Is CUK still a thing or are they all lib dems now?
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Is CUK still a thing or are they all lib dems now? Isn't Mike Gapes still in CUK?
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Oct 22, 2019 14:46
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Plank Sanction posted:This was actually dismissed in court last month but the tardigrade thing was only in at most a couple of early episodes. No-one was sued (and CBS were taken to court, not Paramount). I'm sure all the characters being the same and the six foot blue tardigrade that could instantly travel through space were just a coincidence. Its such an overused sci-fi trope after all.
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Oct 22, 2019 14:47
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The Orville is loving offensive. Seth McFarlane was handed millions of dollars to make a sci-fi TV show and he decided to make a slavish recreation of something that already existed instead, plus some poo poo jokes. If you want to watch something like TNG there are already 178 episodes of it (although more accurately, there are 172 episodes of Voyager, as warmed over rehashes of TNG is much closer to that show). Say what you like about Discovery, at least it’s trying something new with Star Trek.
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Oct 22, 2019 14:49
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A spicy burn on IBS
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Oct 22, 2019 14:51
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ThomasPaine posted:E: yes, free of the English the oppressed peoples must surely create the egalitarian utopia we dream of, just like *checks notes* Ireland! Not to keep stirring when the thread has moved on, but this feels like a massive self-own because Ireland is, in fact, miles better than the UK by pretty much any metric, even before Brexit hell began. And that's despite a millennium of colonialism, so lol (I'm actually lol'ing, not mad and crying. Don't tell them I cried)
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Comrade Fakename posted:The Orville is loving offensive. Seth McFarlane was handed millions of dollars to make a sci-fi TV show and he decided to make a slavish recreation of something that already existed instead, plus some poo poo jokes. If you want to watch something like TNG there are already 178 episodes of it (although more accurately, there are 172 episodes of Voyager, as that warmed over rehashes of TNG is much closer to that show). Say what you like about Discovery, at least it’s trying something new with Star Trek. I saw one episode of the orville and it was about seth mcfarlane trying to get laid and some dude trying to piss. It was mediocre. I liked discovery.
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Looke posted:A spicy burn on IBS Yeah I quite enjoyed that. Anyone noticed that tom watson is yet again loving miles from the spotlight? I get the feeling he is deliberately keeping out of brexit because he thinks this positions him better to run for PM at some point.
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Oct 22, 2019 14:52
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Morningwoodpecker posted:I'm sure all the characters being the same and the six foot blue tardigrade that could instantly travel through space were just a coincidence. Its such an overused sci-fi trope after all.  Aahaha holy poo poo you were't kidding what the actual gently caress.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Not to keep stirring when the thread has moved on, but this feels like a massive self-own because Ireland is, in fact, miles better than the UK by pretty much any metric, even before Brexit hell began. And that's despite a millennium of colonialism, so lol Ireland is actually what most English seem to aspire to, a land run by centrist melts.
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Oct 22, 2019 14:53
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Morningwoodpecker posted:I'm sure all the characters being the same and the six foot blue tardigrade that could instantly travel through space were just a coincidence. Its such an overused sci-fi trope after all. I haven't played the game, but the judge seemed to think so.
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Oct 22, 2019 14:54
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Ireland is actually what most English seem to aspire to, a land run by centrist melts. Corrupt centrists melts, thankyouverymuch
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Oct 22, 2019 14:54
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So does the UK have “swing” districts that regularly switch between Tory and Labour? I’m still tryig to get my head around how the Tories still seem to be favored in the next general election. Trek Derail: I thought Trek fans still hated Brannon Braga for the damp squib named Star Trek: Voyager. Making Star Trek a primetime show is the worst thing you can do if you otherwise want to keep its hokey, optimistic appeal. Being a viable primetime show usually involves lots of un-Trekkie sexiness and action and also engaging in lots of risk-aversion when it comes to storyline and new characters.
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Oct 22, 2019 14:56
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Ireland is actually what most English seem to aspire to, a land run by centrist melts. Basically yeah, but also there's property development crime
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Oct 22, 2019 14:57
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Brony Car posted:I thought Trek fans still hated Brannon Braga for the damp squib named Star Trek: Voyager. Voyager had the best intro music.
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Oct 22, 2019 14:58
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Fitzpatrick asked for assurances that Corbyn wouldn't remove the whip from MPs who vote in favour, and he basically gave that assurance, FFS.
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Oct 22, 2019 15:00
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Brony Car posted:So does the UK have “swing” districts that regularly switch between Tory and Labour? I’m still tryig to get my head around how the Tories still seem to be favored in the next general election. Yes, very much so. We call those marginal constituencies.
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Oct 22, 2019 15:02
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CyberPingu posted:Voyager had the best intro music. Spoken like someone who doesn't have faith, of the heart (The actual best music by far is DS9. in my bachelor youth I recall being in the throes of the physical expression of love with a young lady when her roommate put on DS9 very loudly downstairs. It was a powerful feeling)
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Oct 22, 2019 15:04
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Does everyone forget about Enterprise? Voyager wasn't great and had to follow the best Trek but Enterprise is just terrible in every way.
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Oct 22, 2019 15:06
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Failed Imagineer posted:Basically yeah, but also there's property development crime
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Oct 22, 2019 15:06
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Patel just got fuckin' called out by Yvette Cooper. That was pretty hilarious.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Spoken like someone who doesn't have faith, of the heart Im a big fan of the planet suite and the voyager music sounds a lot like Jupiter so 
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^^^^ykno I love Holst but never made that connection so I'll have to revisit and assessGuavanaut posted:And diesel smuggling. Oh yeah,but only the first one has been definitively shown to be the government itself.
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Oct 22, 2019 15:09
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Comrade Fakename posted:Yes, very much so. We call those marginal constituencies. And are a lot of the “Leave” constituencies marginal ones? Does that explain a lot of the pro-deal Labour MPs doing what they’re doing?
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Oct 22, 2019 15:10
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Does everyone forget about Enterprise? Voyager wasn't great and had to follow the best Trek but Enterprise is just terrible in every way. Prequels are bad. I wish that concept would just die out, but they seem to make enough money that we’ll never be rid of them.
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Oct 22, 2019 15:11
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Brony Car posted:And are a lot of the “Leave” constituencies marginal ones? Does that explain a lot of the pro-deal Labour MPs doing what they’re doing? That, idiocy, and possible outside interests. Caroline Flint is in one of those constituencies, for example, but is stepping down at the next election. She is, however, involved with a body called Propserity UK, which is part-funded by a hedge-fund manager that seems to be very much in favour of a hard Brexit.
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Brony Car posted:Prequels are bad. I wish that concept would just die out, but they seem to make enough money that we’ll never be rid of them. I'd watch a prequel show of James Cromwell as Zephram Cochrane, just whooping it up with his primitive warp drive, offending Vulcans and being a belligerent alcoholic
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Oct 22, 2019 15:14
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Enterprise is better than Voyager. At least Enterprise gave its basic premise a bit of a go. Voyager just abandoned everything interesting after the pilot and quickly settled into episode after episode of beige.
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Oct 22, 2019 15:14
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IDS saying westminsiter is covered in MP's skidmarks and I threw up a little
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Oct 22, 2019 15:15
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Comrade Fakename posted:Enterprise is better than Voyager. At least Enterprise gave its basic premise a bit of a go. Voyager just abandoned everything interesting after the pilot and quickly settled into episode after episode of beige. But then you have the episodes with Irish racism, and the one where lizard Janeway gets impregnated by lizard Tom (IIRC?)
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Oct 22, 2019 15:16
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Comrade Fakename posted:Enterprise is better than Voyager. At least Enterprise gave its basic premise a bit of a go. Voyager just abandoned everything interesting after the pilot and quickly settled into episode after episode of beige. Enterprise only really started to get going in it's last series, Voyager had the occasional dip into something interesting prior to season 4, though it only really hit the ground running when the interactions between 7 of 9 and the Doctor started in earnest.
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Today is going to be make or break for the Labour Party. I see this going through, on Labour support, and then no election for the foreseeable future.
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